Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish and My Bread Journey
This post includes a review of one of my favourite cookbooks and my own personal sourdough journey. (more…)
Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz
I have been due to read a Sandor Katz book for awhile now. I am glad I was able to get the revised edition of…
Marcus at Home by Marcus Wareing
Marcus Wareing is a Michelin starred London based chef. He is widely known on UK TV for judging "Masterchef: The Professionals". I've been a fan…
2018 in Review and 2019 Goals
Books and Reading My goal for 2018 was to read 32 books. 2017 was not a good reading year, but 2018 was much better. As…
No Knead Sourdough Diary Vol. 2
With this entry, I have gone off the one sourdough recipe I have been making and found others. Basically, I am doing the turn and…
The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook by Deb Perelman
The Smitten Kitchen food blog is my favourite food blog and has been for many years so when Ms Perelman announced that she was going…
No-Knead Sourdough Bread Diary Vol. 1
In 2012, I created my own sourdough starter from scratch. It used organic flours (rye, kamut, whole wheat, spelt) and distilled water. I kept the…
Make the Bread: Buy the Butter by Jennifer Reese – Cookbook Review and Sauerkraut
This a follow up review to one I made when I first read this book in 2014. However, I had not made anything from this…
How to Bake by Paul Hollywood
This is the first of three Paul Hollywood books I will review. As someone who loves baking, most of my cookbooks are focused on baking…
The Fast Diet by Michael Mosley and Mimi Spencer
Like many others, I became more interested in Intermittent Fasting (IF) after watching Dr Mosley's BBC Horizon programme on it. I began to realize that…
How to Cook Everything: The Basics by Mark Bittman
When looking through my cookbooks I am surprised I had never written about this book. I love this cookbook. This is the photographic edition of…